Sports tourism : participants, policy and providers

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Title:

Author:

Weed, Mike.

ISBN:

9780750652766

Personal Author:

Weed, Mike.

Publication Information:

Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, 2004.

Physical Description:

xvi, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. Tracing interest in sports tourism -- 2. An overview of the sport-tourism link -- 3. Conceptualizing the sports tourist -- 4. Participant profiles -- 5. A typology of sports tourists -- 6. The policy context -- 7. Prospects for integration -- 8. The market for sports tourism -- 9. Provision strategies -- 10. Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta -- 11. Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield -- 12. Activity tourism in Wales -- 13. Winter skiing in the European Alps -- Epilogue: the development of research and practice.

Subject Term:

Sports and tourism.

Added Author:

Bull, Chris (Chris J.)

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/els033/2003055840.html

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Summary

Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it seeks to present sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies.

The text tackles these issues from three viewpoints:

participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a typology of participants policy: analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomenon and the problems of achieving integration between two sectors with historically different cultures providers: their motivations, aims, objectives and strategies

Illustrated by international case studies in each chapter, and with four extended case study chapters, Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers examines this area using real life experiences and concrete evidence.